Remi Rough: Exploring the Iconic Street Artist's Work

Almost a year after his collaboration show with Stormie Mills, famous abstract graffiti artist Remi Rough is back at Unit44 gallery in Newcastle and just shared some photos of his latest artworks for that recent solo-exhibition! Entitled How to use colour to manipulate people the show presents sculptural work and paintings, that are a big departure from his earlier graffiti paintings… The sculptural work is reminiscent of Serra, his lines and forced shapes brought to life as 3D objects in both wood and clay. ascending to a third dimension seems almost obvious with Remi’s work. Whilst Remi’s new paintings are more referential to his earlier work from 5 years ago, using bitumen and matt emulsion and still maintaining a tight narrative of tension which is a constant in his work. These are abstract works, yet they are firmly rooted in reality. (Unit 44) ...

The Agents of Change Augustine Kofie, Steve More, Remi Rough, LXone and David Shillinglaw recently have been busy in London, painting the largest mural in London, as was mentioned by Ian Cox who by the way took some great photos of this painting action! Keeping the geometry of the design intact is no easy feat especially when you can’t stand back and have a look what you are doing without negotiating six ladders and some traffic. ...

Back in April 2011, Remi/Rough and System from Agents Of Change crew painted a large scale mural commemorating three influential graffiti-kings: Dondi, Jean-Michel Basquiat and RammellZee! I think they did a good job and although in my eyes it’s quite hard to decide who is worth commemorating it’s a nice step into the right direction, because it’s actually respect and recognition what’s sometimes missing in today’s so-called urban art scene… For more info about Agent of Change, visit agents-of-change.co.uk. Via e-mail, thanks!

I just fall in with that astonishing collaboration art show by Remi/Rough and Australian artist Stormie Mills at Unit 44 in Newcastle. Both put together their totally different styles, combined Remi’s colorful, abstract graffiti lines with Stormie’s crazy, monochrome characters and created for that reason some eye-catching artworks delighting with somehow scary scenes in dope atmospheres… Remi/Rough and Stormie Mills have been traveling all over the world together for well over a decade now. This show is a narrative of some of those travels together. ...

Art Competition | One of my most favorite European cities London has another art competition: Rich Mix and Havana Club just launched “The Wall Project” taking place over the next 12 months in the heart of London’s most vibrant creative area and cultural hotspot Shoreditch! Famous urban artist Remi/Rough (I visited his studio last year!) broke the first ground with his interpretation and vision of the values that make Havana so unique. He’s also the head of experts selecting the winning interior designs… ...

Abstract Art | In London, two very talented and well-known abstract artists are just exhibiting their collaborate artworks: Remi/Rough & Steve More! The show named “A”, which is not just the first letter of the alphabet but stands for abstract, abrasive, alternative, avant-garde and anti-popular, shows brilliant urban-inspired, rough artworks. A must for fans of abstract spray-paintings and unusual views… The artworks by Remi/Rough and Steve More combine thin lines and extra-bold ones, straight and clean edges as well as filthy backgrounds. For me, as an enthusiast of abstract spray-paintings, it was really inspiring to take a look at those photos, Remi recently sent over. ...

Studio Visit | He combines tape, paint and aerosol and creates in that way really nice urban-inspired, abstract and rough artworks. Yes, you’re right, I’m talking about London-based painter, musician and agent of change Remi/Rough! Back in 2008 Remi/Rough held court at London’s Tate Modern and talked as part of the Tate’s Street Art exhibition on the underground history of UK graffiti in front of a sell-out auditorium. Now, in October 2010, I met him in his nice studio in South London, had a cup of tea and took some shots of his creativity area and his latest artworks. Today I published some of them on my Urban Art Photography blog… ...

As I told you some days ago, Jaybo’s “ProjectRoom” traveled to London to show the British how great live action painting events could be… Team VNA was in the house to see Remi Rough, Jaybo and Juice126 rock some live painting down at the Redbull music academy last night. Was good to see a huge variation in style and techniques being used… although the spray paint fumes inside did start to go to some peoples heads. (verynearlyalmost.com) ...

If you already had have a look at my photo-collection of the Herakut live-painting, you should know how great live-paintings are. One of the greatest or maybe the greatest art space for urban-inspired live-paintings and other creative things is the “ProjectRoom” project by Jaybo, also known as Monk. One of the latest live-actions in the “ProjectRoom”, which is mainly based in Berlin, was the collaboration of Jaybo and Remi/Rough. By the way, also the kick-ass Herakut action took place there… ...

For me there’s almost nothing more interesting than an abandoned industry area, old and uninhabited houses or those lonely and lonesome places between houses in the urban landscape. Six days ago, I already posted an article about a fantastic abandoned painting project, called Ghostvillage, which took place on the west coast of Scotland several weeks ago. Now there’s another video, documenting the work of the six renowned urban artists Timid, Remi/Rough, System, Stormie Mills, Juice 126 and Derm in that old ghostvillage. ...